[Pov]

Do you think you're really *understanding* the concepts in SSHE or are you just temporarily memorizing them?

If you really focus on understanding not just the what, but also the why of the various plays, it should help you to win even more by making up your own rules to fit the game you're in, but they'll be the winning rules instead of leading you astray.

I know quite a few players who may know the right play in a certain spot, but they can't tell me why it's the correct play. They'll make this same play in a similar spot even when the play is no longer correct because they don't know why they're doing it. You may be falling prey to this to some extent.

Also, variance is tough to really get used to. Some of the plays in SSHE will only work a small percentage of the time, but they're so beneficial it is still worth doing them. When normal variance leads to the play not working for an extended period of time, the human mind starts to associate a bad result with the play and you'll have more and more difficulty really doing it. The only way to overcome this is to *know* it is the correct play and why so you can overrule this instinct even months and years from now.